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a French economist, see Andr Masson (economist). Andr Masson Pedestal Table in the Studio, (1922) Birth nameAndr-Aim-Ren Masson Born(1896-01-04)4 January 1896 Balagny-sur-Thrain, Oise Died28 October 1987(1987-10-28) (aged 91) Paris NationalityFrench FieldPainting MovementSurrealism Andr Masson. Automatic Drawing. (1924). Ink on paper, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8" (23.5 x 20.6 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York.Andr-Aim-Ren Masson (4 January 1896 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Artistic Works 3 Family 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External links [edit] BiographyMasson was born in Balagny-sur-Thrain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Acadmie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. He fought for France during World War I and was seriously injured. [edit] Artistic WorksHis early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson would often force himself to work under strict conditions, for example, after long periods of time without food or sleep, or under the influence of drugs. He believed forcing himself into a reduced state of consciousness would help his art be free from rational control, and hence get closer to the workings of his subconscious mind.[citation needed] From around 1926 he experimented by throwing sand and glue onto canvas and making oil paintings based around the shapes that formed. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding automatism rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War (he associated once more with the surrealists at the end of the 1930s). Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's luggage found a cache of his erotic drawings. Denouncing them as pornographic, they ripped them up before the artist's eyes.[citation needed] Living in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an important influence on American abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock. Following the war, he returned to France and settled in Aix-en-Provence where he painted a number of landscapes.

Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. [edit] FamilyHis son, Diego Masson (born 1935), is a conductor, composer, and percussionist, while another son, Luis, is an actor.[1] His daughter, Lily Masson (born 1920), is a painter. [edit] BibliographyHlne Parant, Fabrice Flahutez, Camille Morando, La bibliothque d'Andr Masson. Une archologie, Paris, Artvenir, 2011. ISBN 2-9539406-0-2 Andr Masson. Catalogue raisonn de l'uvre peint, 1919-1941, Vaumarcus, ditions ArtAcatos, 2010 ; catalogue tabli par Guite Masson, Martin Masson et Catherine Loewer, Prface de Bernard Nol, Andr Masson de Dawn Ades, Biographie d'Andr Masson (1896-1941) de Camille Morando. Andr Masson , publi l'initiative de Robert Desnos et d'Armand Salacrou en 1940 (tirage limit sans nom d'diteur). Chaque exemplaire est paraph par Andr Masson. Texte de Jean-Louis Barrault, Georges Bataille, Andr Breton, Robert Desnos, Paul luard, Armel Guerne, Pierre Jean Jouve, Madeleine Landsberg, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Benjamin Pret. Rdition en 1993 aux ditions Andr Dimanche, Marseille. Dawn Ades, Andr Masson , Paris, d. Albin Michel coll. Les grands matres de lart contemporain, 1994 (traduit de langlais par Jacques Tranier). Andr Breton, Le Surralisme et la Peinture , Paris, d. Gallimard, 1965. Jean-Claude Clbert, Mythologie d Andr Masson , Genve, d. Pierre Cailler, 1971. Daniel Gurin Eux et Lui. suivi de commentaires, orns de cinq dessins originaux dAndr Masson . Lille, 2000. Armel Guerne Andr Masson ou les autres valeurs , 2007. Hubert Juin, Andr Masson , Le muse de poche, Paris, 1963. Jean-Clarence Lambert, Andr Masson , Paris, d. Filipacchi, 1979. Franoise Levaillant, Massacre de signes , Tokyo, Misuzu Shobo, 1995. Georges Limbour et Michel Leiris Andr Masson et son univers , Les Trois collines, Lausanne, 1947. Georges Limbour Andr Masson, dessins , collection "Plastique", d. Braun, Paris, 1951. Andr Masson, Entretiens avec Georges Charbonnier , prface de Georges Limbour, Julliard, Paris, 1958. Rdition en 1995 aux ditions Andr Dimanche, Marseille. Andr Masson, La Mmoire du monde , Genve, Skira, 1974 (entretiens avec Gatan Picon). Andr Masson, Le Vagabond du surralisme , entretiens avec Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, d. Saint-Germain-des-Prs, 1975. Andr Masson, Le Rebelle du Surralisme , Paris, d. Hermann, d. 1976, (anthologie tablie par Franoise Levaillant). Rdition en 1994. Andr Masson, Les Annes surralistes. Correspondance 1916-1942 , Lyon, La Manufacture, 1990 (dition tablie et prsente par Franoise Levaillant, daprs le Doctorat de F. Levaillant, Andr Masson : Lettres choisies 1922 1942, Universit de Paris I, Panthon-Sorbonne, 1986). Florence de Mredieu Andr Masson, les dessins automatiques , Blusson, 1988. Stephan Moebius Die Zauberlehrlinge. Soziologiegeschichte des Collge de Sociologie , Konstanz, 2006. Bernard Nol, Andr Masson, la chair du regard, Paris, Gallimard coll. l art et l crivain, 1993. Ren Passeron Andr Masson et les puissances de signe , Denol 1975. Jos Pierre, LAventure Surraliste autour dAndr Breton , Paris, d. Filipacchi, 1986. Clark V. Poling, Andr Masson and the surrealist self , New Haven & London, Yale university press, 2008.

Michel Surya Georges Bataille, la mort l uvre, Gallimard, Paris, 1992. Franoise Will-Levaillant Andr Masson, priode asiatique 1950-1959 , Galerie de Seine, Paris 1972. Buchholz, Kai & Wolbert, Klaus (Hg.): Andr Masson. Bilder aus dem Labyrinth der Seele. Frankfurt a. M. 2003. Kaiser-Strohmann, Dagmar. Vom Aufruhr zur Struktur. Schriftwerte im Informel, Exhibition Catalogue, Gustav-Luebcke-Museum Hamm 2008, ISBN 3-9807898-6-1 Mueller-Yao, Marguerite Hui: Der Einfluss der Kunst der chinesischen Kalligraphie auf die westliche informelle Malerei, Diss. Bonn, Koeln 1985. ISBN 3-88375-051-4 Mueller-Yao, Marguerite: Informelle Malerei und chinesische Kalligrafie, in: Informel, Begegnung und Wandel, (hrsg von Heinz Althoefer, Schriftenreihe des Museums am Ostwall; Bd. 2), Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-611-01062-6, Rolf Wedewer: Die Malerei des Informel. Weltverlust und Ich-Behauptung, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 2007. ISBN 3-422-06560-1 An Anthology from X (Oxford University Press 1988). X ran from 1959-62. Edited by David Wright & Patrick Swift. Contributions from painters Masson, Alberto Giacometti, Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Oskar Kokoschka, et al., writers W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, et al. [edit] References^ Luis Masson at the Internet Movie Database [edit] External linksMasson at the Tate Gallery. Short biography. Mller-Yao, Marguerite: Informelle Malerei und chinesische Kalligrafie, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-611-01062-6 Persondata NameMasson, Andre Alternative names Short description Date of birth4 January 1896 Place of birthBalagny-sur-Thrain, Oise Date of death28 October 1987 Place of deathParis Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr_Masson&oldid=491503821" View page ratingsRate this page Rate this page Page ratings What s this?Current average ratings. Trustworthy Objective Complete Well-written I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional) I have a relevant college/university degreeIt is part of my professionIt is a deep personal passionThe source of my knowledge is not listed here I would like to help improve Wikipedia, send me an e-mail (optional) We will send you a confirmation e-mail. We will not share your e-mail address with outside parties as per our feedback privacy statement.Submit ratings Saved successfullyYour ratings have not been submitted yetYour ratings have expiredPlease reevaluate this page and submit new ratings. An error has occurred. Please try again later. Thanks! Your ratings have been saved.Please take a moment to complete a short survey.Start surveyMaybe later Thanks! Your ratings have been saved.Do you want to create an account?An account

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